Johnny Smith é um professor de literatura que estava prestes a se casar quando sofre um acidente de carro e fica cinco anos em coma. Ao recobrar a consciência, descobre que perdeu sua carreira e Sarah Bracknell (Brooke Adams), sua noiva, mas em compensação ganhou poderes paranormais que o permitem prever o futuro. Assim, ele tem o poder de alterar o curso dos acontecimentos e este é o seu dilema: interferir ou sofrer sozinho, sabendo das tragédias que estão por acontecer.
Andy é um novo professor em uma escola do centro da cidade que é como nada que ele já viu antes. Há detectores de metal na porta da frente e tudo é basicamente dirigido por um garoto durão chamado Peter Stegman. Em breve, Andy e Stegman se tornarão inimigos e Stegman não fará nada para proteger seus negócios de território e tráfico de drogas.
Lance Henriksen is a successful restauranteur who is having a hot n' heavy affair with the wife (Susan Tyrell) of a Presidential Adviser. During one rendezvous they overhear the husband and an Admiral discussing "the killing of the patient", and as the adulterous couple have been under surveillance this information reaches a top Federal Agent (Patrick O'Neal) who provides security for the President. His investigation begins to cast light on a conspiracy within government to assassinate the President - and now he must expose the conspiracy and stop it cold.
An unnamed man, simply called "The Man" is trapped in a cubical white room where anyone else can enter and leave, but which he himself apparently cannot leave. A stool is brought in covered in strawberry jam, the furniture changes throughout the play. The main character, is subjected to an increasingly puzzling and frustrating series of encounters, as a variety of people come through various hidden doors. But, as many remind him, he can only leave through his own door, so he must find it to leave. Originally airing on NBC's weekly anthology television show NBC Experiment in Television in 1969, the production was produced and directed by puppeteer and filmmaker Jim Henson, and was one of several experiments with the live-action film medium which he conducted in the 1960s, before focusing entirely on The Muppets and other puppet works.
18 year-old Peter lives with his parents in a middle-class Toronto suburb and rebels constantly against their imposed middle-class goals and conventions and the materialist values they represent. He constantly mocks and belittles his family with his only real ally being his girlfriend Julie. Peter's relationship with his parents reaches its boiling point when he borrows his father's new car without permission and is left by him to spend the night in jail after Peter is arrested for reckless driving. Peter runs away from home and moves into a rooming house, and eventually gets a shady job as a parking attendant. His relationship with Julie becomes exponentially more complicated and he finally realizes that being alone in the real world is much harder than he ever imagined.
